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Lotus corniculatus
Lotus corniculatus, known as bird's-foot trefoil, is a perennial flowering legume of the pea family, native to temperate Eurasia and grown as forage that does not cause bloat in livestock.
Lotus Cortina
The Lotus Cortina, known to Ford as the Cortina Lotus, is a high-performance Ford Cortina developed by Lotus under Colin Chapman, launched in January 1963.
Lotus Development Corporation
Lotus Development Corporation was a Cambridge, Massachusetts software company founded by Mitch Kapor in 1982, best known for the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet and acquired by IBM in 1995.
Lotus Éclat
The Lotus Éclat, also known as Lotus Type 76 or Type 84, is a British 2+2 fastback coupé made by Lotus Cars from 1975 to 1982 as a fastback-tailed sister to the Elite.
Lotus effect
The lotus effect is the self-cleaning property of certain plant surfaces, named for the sacred lotus, where water droplets roll off superhydrophobic, microscopically rough leaves and carry dust away.
Lotus Elan
The Lotus Elan (Type 26) is a two-seat Lotus sports car built from 1962 to 1973, Lotus's first commercial success and a benchmark for sports-car handling.
Lotus Elise
The Lotus Elise is a lightweight two-seat mid-engined roadster built by Lotus Cars at Hethel, England, from 1996 to 2021, known for its bonded aluminum chassis and handling.
Lotus Esprit
The Lotus Esprit is a mid-engine British sports car designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro and built by Lotus at Hethel, Norfolk, from 1976 to 2004, famous as James Bond's submarine car.
Lotus Evora
The Lotus Evora is a mid-engined 2+2 sports car built by Lotus Cars at Hethel, Norfolk, from 2009 to 2021. It was named evo Car of the Year 2009.
Lotus Exige
The Lotus Exige is a two-seat, mid-engine sports coupé produced by Lotus Cars at Hethel, Norfolk, from 2000 to 2021, developed from the Lotus Elise.
Lotus F1
Lotus F1 names Team Lotus (1958–1994, Colin Chapman, 79 wins, 7 constructors' titles) and the 2012–2015 Enstone Lotus F1 Team (ex-Renault, Raikkonen's 2012–13 wins), which Renault bought back in December 2015.
Lotus position
The lotus position, or padmāsana, is a seated meditation posture in which each foot rests on the opposite thigh, soles upward. Many adults cannot achieve it safely.
Lotus seed
Lotus seed, the edible seed of Nelumbo nucifera (sacred lotus, lianzi), a long-lived aquatic crop seed eaten as paste, soups, and flour; notable for 1300-year viability record, hard impermeable coat requiring scarification, and food-medicine status in China.
Lotus Sutra
The Lotus Sutra, or Miaofa lianhua jing, is a Mahayana Buddhist scripture of 28 chapters, composed in India in the first two centuries CE and central to Tiantai and Nichiren Buddhism.
Lotus Technology (路特斯科技)
Lotus Technology Inc. (路特斯科技) is a Wuhan-based maker of luxury battery electric vehicles sold under the Lotus brand, listed on Nasdaq under the ticker LOT since February 2024.
Lotus Temple
The Lotus Temple, also known as the Bahá'í House of Worship, Delhi, is a lotus-shaped temple in New Delhi, India, completed in 1986 to a design by Fariborz Sahba.
Lotus Weinstock
Lotus Weinstock (1943–1997), born Marlene Weinstock, American stand-up comedian, author of The Lotus Position, Belly Room mainstay at the Comedy Store, engaged to Lenny Bruce, mother of violinist Lili Haydn.
Lotus-eaters
Lotus-eaters (Λωτοφάγοι, Lotophagi): a North African people of Homer's Odyssey and Herodotus 4.177, whose lotus fruit made eaters forget their homecoming; plant identity debated (Zizyphus, date, clover), later used by Tennyson, Joyce, and Nolan.
Lou (2022 film)
Lou (2022) is a Netflix action thriller directed by Anna Foerster, starring Allison Janney and Jurnee Smollett in a storm-set kidnapping rescue on Orcas Island, Washington; 107 minutes, R, Bad Robot, released September 23, 2022.
Lou Abell
Lou Abell (Louis Grenville Abell, 1884–1962), American coxswain who steered the Vesper Boat Club eight to Olympic gold at Paris 1900 and St. Louis 1904, later a board of health worker in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
Lou Adler
Lou Adler (born 1933) is an American record producer and label founder behind Dunhill and Ode Records, Monterey Pop 1967, Carole King's Tapestry, and Rocky Horror; not the hiring consultant of the same name.
Lou Albano
"Captain" Lou Albano (Louis Vincent Albano, 1933–2009) was an American pro wrestling manager and wrestler, WWE Hall of Famer (1996), who guided 15 teams to tag team gold and starred in Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" video and as Mario on TV.
Lou Andreas-Salomé
Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861-1937), Russian-born German-writing essayist, novelist, and one of the first female psychoanalysts; friend of Nietzsche, Rilke, and Freud; author of Friedrich Nietzsche in seinen Werken (1894) and Narzissmus als Doppelrichtung (1921).
Lou Banach
Lou Banach is an American retired freestyle wrestler who won gold at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. He later served in the U.S. Army and worked in Wisconsin banking.
Lou Bega
Lou Bega (David Lubega, born 1975, Munich) is a German singer of Sicilian and Ugandan descent whose 1999 hit "Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of...)", sampling Pérez Prado's 1949 instrumental, topped charts worldwide and reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Lou Brock
Lou Brock (1939-2020), MLB left fielder for Cubs and Cardinals; 938 career stolen bases (NL record, second to Rickey Henderson), 118 in 1974, 3,023 hits, 1964 and 1967 World Series titles, first-ballot Hall of Famer 1985.
Lou Christie
Lou Christie (Lugee Alfredo Giovanni Sacco, 1943–2025), American pop singer-songwriter from Glenwillard, Pennsylvania, known for his falsetto and hits "Lightnin' Strikes" (US No. 1, 1966), "Two Faces Have I", "Rhapsody in the Rain", and "I'm Gonna Make You Mine"; co-wrote hits with Twyla Herbert.
Lou Conter
Lou Conter (Louis Anthony Conter, 1921-2024) was a US Navy lieutenant commander, the last living survivor of USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor, a Black Cat PBY pilot with 200 combat missions, and founder of the Navy's first SERE program.
Lou Correa
Lou Correa, born 1958, is an American Democrat serving as the U.S. Representative for California's 46th district since 2017, after 20 years in Orange County public service.
Lou Costello
Lou Costello (Louis Francis Cristillo, 1906–1959), American comedian from Paterson, New Jersey, the funnyman half of Abbott and Costello, star of Buck Privates and performer of Who's on First?.